IMovie stops encoding shortly into a project.

Hello.
I've had this problem for a while now and none of my usual fixes (deleting .plists and repairing disk permissions) have worked.
When I set iMovie HD to encode something (usually to MP4 with Expert settings for a reasonable file size, but this has happened with everything I've tried), it will either seemingly finish encoding or the progress window will disappear part of the way through without any error messages or indications that something is wrong.
When I play back the encoded file the video will suddenly freeze at a random point while the audio carries on. Quicktime Player's currently on version 7.2.0.
When played on VLC Player I get the following error:
main: decoder is leaking pictures, resetting the heap
main: picture 0x2a4be34 refcount is -1
Also, since iMovie HD is nothing but trouble and I haven't found a decent alternative, transitions are rendering in a juddery, jittery fashion which disrupts both sound and video. That and the audio will cut out the end of each clip a second or so before the next one starts. But the problem highlighted above is the main reason for my desk having a forehead-shaped dent in it.
Currently have 104.65 GB left so I'm pretty sure it's not due to lack of disk space.
2 GHz Intel Core Duo iMac Mac OS X (10.4.10)

mm... premiere is 7.0 and media encoder 7.0.1 but the software says up to date. Creative cloud manager said everything is up to date but this morning adobe updater said there was some upgrade to premiere and its currently updating.
At any rate, it may be updating because last night I uninstalled everything and refreshed premiere's settings and was able to export something. When I opened up premiere though, it said that something was missing from the previous project and i just ok'd it. Thinking back to it though, I remember it was something involving mercury so I looked that up and its some sort of playback engine from NVIDIA http://www.nvidia.com/object/adobe-cs6.html
I never installed such a thing nor do I know what that could have to do with rendering since its called a playback engine but things seem to be working now. For that matter, I don't see how uninstalling premiere removed an NVIDIA component but w/e. Hope that helps anyone who may run into this problem and hope it doesn't come up again for me.
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